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S C O U R S E 

AT THE 

FTXNEEAL SOLEMNITIES, 

OBSERVED AT BRIDGEPORT, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE. 
CITY AUTHORITIES, APRIL 19th, 1841, 

COMMEMORATIVE 
OF THE DECEASE 

OF 

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 

PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES, 

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 4, 1841. 

BY 

NATHANIEL HEWIT, D. D. 



PASTOR OF THE SOUTH CONGRE :ONAL CHURCH. 



STANDARD OFFICE, 

BRIDGEPORT, CO; 
1841. 



\<U< rtis< in .it. 



WILLIAM HF.NRV HARRISON, law l 1 ; ntod BMn, 

was inaugurated on tba 4th of March 1841, and died suddenly on the -1th of April 
following, in the d'Jih year of hi* age. He was elected by an overwhelming 
majority, after a morn sharp party contest than any thnt preceded it. The pecu- 
liar ; ' the OOOntTJ both «s to in doni UCltWIM, rendered 

tboM who confided in him, a mo«t propitious 
ase has plunged ih<> country into grief and consternation unex- 
ampled in our history since ibfl di igton. Under these circumstances 

' llowing di 5 c-our»u was pronounced to a vast concourse of all parties. At is 
multitude wero prevented from hearing it, being unable to enter the place of wor- 
ship whore it was delivered, it is for their *ake* chiefly, that tho author con*en:» to 
its publication, and not because he concurs in tho over-estimation of its merits bv hi* 
partial friends. 



Bridgeport, 21st April, 18 II. 
To the Rev. Dr. Heitit • 

At a meeting of the Committee of Arrangements for the lato President's 
Funeral, convened by special notice, Charles Bostwick, Lsq. was called to the 
Chair, and Wm. 13. I >;. emry, it was 

/,'• olted, unanimously, Thnt the thanks of ibil mooting bo tendersd to the 
l>r. Hewit, for his very able and eloquent discourse delivered at the Baptist 
Church on Monday last in commemoration of the decease of the late President of 
the United States, and that they respectfully a-k of him a copy for publication. 

Itcsolrcd, That Charlu« L5o*twick, I). R. Nichols, and S. B.Jones, he a Com- 
mittee to carrv tho above Resolution into effect. 

CIURLES BOSTWICK, Chairman. 



!..\icliols, and S. /?. Jones, F.iqrs. Committee, <f-c. .- 
th »uhmit to your disposal the discourse mentioned, 
gement* for the favorable notice you are pleased to 
Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

NATHANIEL HEWIT. 

1311. 



DISCOURSE. 



Well known among you, brethren and friends, as being no 
party man in temporal affairs, I can with the more assurance call 
upon you to lay aside your animosities as a divided people, and 
unite conscientiously with me, in aiding us all to lay religiously 
to heart the decease of the late President of the United States, 
which we have assembled to solemnize. 

Although praise of the praiseworthy dead, is due both to them 
and the living, that "the good which men do may not be interred 
with their bones ;*' and that their examples may the more be 
commended to those who come after them, yet this service inform 
to the memory of William Henry Harrison, I must leave to those 
who better know his merits, and are more competent to set 
them forth for the instruction of mankind. Illustrious men, who 
emulously strove to honor him living, will perpetuate his name in 
words more durable than brass and marble- Tc those tributes of 
admiration for his qualities as a man, and of gratitude for his 
services as a benefactor of his country, wet with tears for his 
premature death, I must refer all present who, with them, com- 
mitted to his hands the public welfare, and who deplore his early 
removal as a national calamity, for that relief of blighted hopes 
and bereaved affection, which is found in recalling the images of 
the fair, the great, and the good who are hidden from us in the 
darkness of the grave. 

Before we turn our attention to the sudden decease of the Ch'.ef 
Ruler of our country, an event hitherto unexampled amongst lis, 
and in which we have all a common concern, we shall do violenca 
to ourselves as being also tenants of clay, and at a hand's '^cadt' 
from the unseen world, if we linger not awhile in the house 
mourning, where we see the end of all flesh, and lay that alsi 
to heart. Standing beside the remains of President Harrison, 
we cannot fail of seeing the hand. writing of the finger of God 
upon them, copied from his word, and in this case so impressively 
verified: "Man in his best estate is altogether vanity!" We 
should read that inscription as written alike upon the living and 
the dead. In his best estate man is a vanity, as well as when he 
can hold that estate no longer, and when he is forced away from 
it, to go down to the place occupied in common by the lowliest 



and loftiest of men. lUre likewise let us beware of the incense 
: to tlie living by the funeral pageantries for the dead. 
These the more frequently inflame the [Tide of man, whilst they 
in to rebuke it, ;md - ambition and 

rain.glory whi M . TV of man 

is the dietemper <>! the race. Mindful of raie, let ..nemo- 

rat' and graeei of tfa laed, wherein as one of 

our he can be an example to us all. 

R i re I to expatiate al length on the peraon and life ol Harrison, 

I would scrupulously shin is which 

ho had in common with other celebrated men, but wboneverthe< 
less were the baeeet of mankind. Hie extraordinary powers, 
both natural and acquired, his opponents themselves being judges, 
were under the direction of his conscience ; and that, according 
to tho testimony of nil friends, was purified and illumined by 
" the wimIuiii which is from above." i speak tins of him with 
all due caution ; for I um well aware aritfa what facility illustrious 
men, alter their decease, are garnished with virtues they 
had, and enthroned above with the saints of the .Most High, 
wlio.se fellowehip they scorned irhjlel here below. Most persons, 
and the foremost of these are the eminent themselves, assume it 
as a thing of course, that the " highly esteemed amongst men," 
must be even more so with God ; and that all who have filled a 
high place on earth, must have a higher in heaven. How eagerly 
a very small matter, if it have u little of religious savor, is seized 
on and magnified as conclusive evidence of a great man's fitness 
for the Kingdom of God ; as if a transient and equivocal notice 
of the christian religion on his part, was equivalent to " the faith 
and patience of the saints |" 

There is indeed a magtiificenco in worldly greatness which 
seduces the strong-minded and confounds the weak. But it is 
not a grandeur that is true and real. It is a vain show : the 

rgeoua drapery merely, which passion puts on the otherwise 
naked deformites o*) fallen man, and this ruined world. Reason 
lone, . -about the help of acripture, ia able to discover that " the 
ishioa of this world passeth away." And were great men 
iiitional only, tin y would be humble; and were small men rational 
likewise they would envy the great do more. It i> p laaiOO, not 
reason ; it is depraved human nature more dobased by mis- 
culture, rather than purified by refinement ; it ia infidelity hid 
beneath the forms of Christianity, not the " faith once delivered 
to the aainti ;" which arrays the affaire of this life in scarlet, and 

purple and gold, and then devoutly worships them. The purse, 
the sword and tho sceptre- are great and glorious in the eyes of 
men of ^reat passions, weak reason, and no faith. How does 
man's mortality explode the dreams of mighty passion ! When 



the vast powers of extraordinary men are in thraldom to that 
sorceress, what a sorrowful spectacle of the degradation of our 
nature appears ! and when one of these sons of the mighty is 
smitten down to the dust, what a havoc is made of the great 
passions of his breast ! 

What a prodigy is man ! the more great, the more prodigious ! 
The great man of the world sees all things but truth, learns all 
things hut wisdom, does all thing's but his duty, bears all things 
but self-denial, gains all things but peace of mind ; is praised by 
all voices except that of his conscience ; with every thing glori- 
ous in life except that it is short, and soon to terminate in the 
grave, which he nevertheless casts out of his thoughts, or pushes 
forwards into the obscurity of a remote and uncertain future, 
whence of a sudden, death springs upon him from that obscurity, 
as a thief in the night, and hurls him in agony, remorse and 
despair with violence out of the world! 

It was not so with President Harrison. If he had great pas. 
sions, he served them not. During a long life, they were in 
subjection to his strong moral sense. I know not that his repu- 
tation in private or public life, is stained by any habitual vice ; 
and am yet to learn that he ever perpetrated an offence against 
good morals. In all the grades of the human family, we occa- 
sionally meet with individuals in whom the personal and relative 
virtues of moral integrity seem to be natural. It appears to have 
been so with him. " All these he observe d from his youth up." 
When moreover the social affections are united with a strong 
moral sense, and both are expanded by learning and ripened by 
age and experience, a character is formed which all the world is 
ready to admire. Such persons are for the most part pronounced 
without hesitation to be great and good. But we must be re- 
minded that these endowments, if they be not graced by " an 
unction from the Holy One,'' will " lift up the heart of man with 
pride, and bring him into the condemnation of the Devil." It is 
indeed better for the world every way, that great men should 
employ their talents in good works, even if they do it " to be 
seen of men," than that they should despise both man and God, 
and become throughout monsters of wickedness. But however 
illustrious such persons may become by words and deeds, if 
they aim no higher than the praise of men, they gain no more 
than it ;" they have their reward." When removed from the 
world they serve, their revenues of praise are cut off forever. 
Let eminent men then beware ! If the people praise ye ; and in 
their blind admiration exclaim, "ye are gods!" believe them 
not ; for thus saith the Lord, "ye shall die like men, and your 
glory shall not descend after you." 

President Harrison, we trust, was not a slave to sordid ambi- 



lion ; neither was it the ruling passion of Ins heart to court the 
praiae of men. Men.pleaeen do those things which please men, 
be they what they muy. Especially is this case with those 
who aspire to office and power. These do obeisance to 
public opinion, and change with every wind of popular doctrine. 
But be thought for himself; or rather he inquired for truth at the 
fountain! of wisdom both divine and human. His inaugural 
speech is all his own. No other man could have written it. It 
has no pattern, and can have no imitation. With intrepid in- 
tegrity he speaks out what, in the fear of God, he believed to be 
the truth, regardless alike of friend or foe. This is not the way 
of ambitious men, who are swayed by the lust of popular favor, 
or seek it that they may aggrandize themselves. He went up to 
power, we have reason to believe, with clean hands and a pure 
heurt. He bargained not for suffrages with promises of office, 
and as a President he had no debts of the candidate to pay by the 
robbery of his country, or by a merciless proscription of those in 
office, whose only fault was that they honestly preferred another 
to himself. Had he been a servile tool of factious men, impelled 
by avarice, selfish ambition, revenge or any other base motive, 
or by a combination of them all, would he have done thus ? Is 
this the way of the world ? Do not forget, that I am not eulogi- 
zing the chieftain of a party ; but am aiming to lind an honest 
man, who held fast to his integrity in the midst of temptations to 
sacrifice it, which are come to be so great, as to lead multitudes 
of sagacious men to the belief, that no man living is proof against 
them. Hence preparations are vigorously making to shear the 
office of President of those prerogatives, which without the name, 
make it more potent than many of the crowns of Europe. If 
this be so, how does it augment the evidence that Gen. Harrison 
was a partaker not only of the virtues of moral integrity as a 
man, but also of that " faith" whose " victory" is "to overcome 
the world." 

He was not in form a member of a Church of Christ. Suppos- 
ing him to have been a " believer in Him with all his heart," this 
neglect on his part was an act of disobedience to his Lord and 
Saviour of no trivial magnitude. He humbly acknowledged his 
sin, and doubtless with unfeigned sorrow, in the presence of his 
pastor, adding withal that he had long been deeply convinced of 
the truth and importance of the Christian religion. Years ago 
he was a teacher of a Bible class in the Episcopal Church in 
Cincinnati, and of course he had for a long time been much more 
than a nominal and merely formal adherent to Christianity in 
general.* This delay of his proposed subjection to the gospel 

*On his journey to Washington, ho said to a physician at Pittsburgh, who found 
him laio iuiho evening reading the Sciiptures, "It has grown tobea fixed habit 



and ordinances of Christ may be explained consistently with his 
sincerity as a hopeful disciple, although that neglect cannot be 
justified. It is by no means uncommon for men of a strong 
native moral sense, as was the case with him, and of scrupulous 
integrity, to be slow in falling in with the peculiarities ot the pure 
gospel of the grace of God. Their integrity blinds their con- 
sciences to the depravity of their hearts in the sight of God. 
That sin natural conscience cannot discover before it is enlight- 
ened by the law of God understood in its spiritual meaning and 
absolute perfection. Ir is guilt which expounds toman's polluted 
and ruined soul the mysteries of Christ and him crucified. Up- 
right men are free for the most part from those vices and that 
flagrant impiety, which are ordinarily the first, and in multitudes, 
the chief means of convincing sinners of their guilt and exposure 
to the wrath of God, and which impel them to flee for refuge 
without delay to the mercy of the gospel. Or he may have had 
that same deep self-abasement and profound awe of the divine 
majestv of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, " God manifest 
in the flesh," which appeared in the Roman Captain who, though 
no Jew outwardly, yet was one inwardly, for he loved that nation, 
and built them a synagogue, and yet thought himself not worthy 
to go unto Christ, or that he should come under his roof, but of 
whom nevertheless the Lord himself pronounced, " that he had 
not found so great faith " as his, " no not in Israel." 

Be these things as they may, and however reluctant any one 
may be to attribute to him a name and a place among the follow- 
ers of the Lamb, certain it is that he " witnessed a good confes- 
sion before many witnesses." He was not ashamed of Christ and 
of his words, when he went up in clouds of all human glory, to 
be installed supreme ruler of one of the great nations of the earth. 
Standing up in majesty more august and imposing than is worn 
by emperors and kings, he cast down his garland of triumph at 
the foot of the cross, and did homage to him who was slain thereon, 
in the presence of the high and mighty of the land, and the tens 
of thousands of the people at his feet. ' We should here specially 
advert to the fact, that this homage to the christian religion was 
the voluntary offering of the man, and not a ceremonial belong- 
ing by law or custom to the office or the occasion. When vacant 
thrones in the old world are mounted by their hereditary succes- 
sors or otherwise, the ceremonial of their inauguration therein, 

with me now, to read a portion of the Scriptures every night. I am never so late 
retiring, or so weary, as to intermit that practice. It has been my habit for twen ' v 
years — at first as a matter of duty, but it has now become a pleasure. I read the 
Bible every night. — [Extract from the National Intelligencer. 

Rev. Dr. Hawley, Pastor of St. John's Church where the President worshiped, 
stated at his funeral that he was to have been admitted to the communion of the 
Church the Sabbath succeeding his death. 



i* made up chiefly "I religious ntes, imperative oti the heirs o. 
the crown, end eselusiveol i rn cordial concurrence. Not 

bo is it here. V. r< tie*, unless the oath of office 

be one. nrn preecribed of demanded r t" the full investiture 

ear ruler* with all their legal prerogatives. The homage 
Preeideal II irrison to Christ, \s . evidently the homage of 

the man ; spontaneous, frank , reverential ; m terms of artless 
simplicity, unambiguous, express and full ; a subline and melt- 
ing example ol the -<rength and loveliness of ehrietian faith ejhea 
ii ie enthroned in the heart* oftl Lei no man here sur- 

hum: that tbii devont act was a 'Tatty device of a man of wiles 
and snares, to bribe 10 ins footstool the more religion* of the 
peoplei Other men no less sagacious than he, and no less desir- 
ous of the favor of all classes of our countrymen, and not more 
over scrupulous as to their proceeding*, than be is thought by any 
to have been, thought not of that expedient : <»r if they did, found 
BOmetbiog in it Which made it a burden UM griavon* to be borne. 
May we not then believe that from the be lit, M he honored Christ 
before mrii," and that, according to the faithful word of Christ, 
the Lord both of the living and the dead, Christ now honors him 
before the " face of his father m heaven, and before his angels." 
If moreover, he left his retirement, where he hud all a wise 
man wishes, a good in in enjoys, and a truly great man alone 
appreciates, not from the impulse of sordid ambition, but in obedi- 
ence to the will of God's providence, then his sudden death may 
well be regarded, as it respects himself, a martyrdom to christian 
righteousness. As thing* now are in our country, and as they 
are like to be more and more so hereafter, the successful candi- 
date for our republican crown is more a victim than a victor. 
That crown is one of iron ; and he needs to be more or less than 
man who can wear it long. Without presuming to scrutinise the 
secret will of Cod, or to explore the issues of life and death, may 
we not suppose, that the fresh and tender emotions of a heart, 
generous by nature, and enlarged by a long and diversified life 
through scenes which sharpened its susceptibilities to all that 
belongs to one's kind and country, chastened by the law and 
purified by the gospel, mellowed by the charities of home, and 
deepened by calm meditation in the shade* of retirement, and 
those solemn communing* with thing* unseen and eternal, which 
press so closely on a christian man of nearly three score years 
and ten, were unable to bear the rough and impetuous rustlings 

in upon him of but who can apprehend the position of our 

President in times like ours ? The frame work of the outer man 
gave way, when the floods of great waters camo upon him, and 
" tho beauty of Israel is slam upon her high places : how are the 
mighty fallen '" 



Let no man's heart whisper to itself that his decease, under 
the circumstances of its occurrence, is a manifest demonstration 
of the divine displeasure with him. Know ye not that when God 
would chasten a family, a city, a state or a nation, it is his way 
"to remove the desire of their eyes with a stroke," not because 
of any special iniquity in the one that falls ; for then he would 
die for his own sin, and how should that be a chastisement of 
theirs? But when the worthy to live is cut off, "when the 
righteous^perisheth," when the right arm of a family is broken, 
when the eye of a city is plucked out, when a pillar of the state 
falls, when the father of a country is laid in the dust, then it is 
that the survivors endure chastening. These bereavements re- 
buke the living, and stigmatize not the dead. It was no crime 
in Harrison to forego the repose of serene old age for the toils of 
public life, for that Holy- word which was the man of his counsel 
taught him, " that no man liveth unto himself." That the private 
man was merged in the public character, is conspicuous through- 
out the brief period intervening between his election and his death ; 
and when wasting away under the ravages of his mortal illness, 
his soul, though tranquil as to its own necessities having therein 
" the peace of God, which passeth all understanding," yet was 
it burdened with the public good ; and thus the dying man was a 
witness to the purity of the living President. 

We need not go far to divine the design of God in removing 
President Harrison by sudden death. These years the Most 
High has been rebuking our countrymen : but they were stout- 
hearted and would not hear. He burnt your cities with fire : but 
ye said, " The bricks are fallen down, and we will build with 
hewn stone." And ye have done it. He blighted your crops, 
and ye were pinched by scarcity : but ye said, " The next season 
shall be fruitful, and our barns shall be filled with plenty." And 
it was so. He hath deluged your fields with floods, and swept 
away the works of your hands : but ye said, " The fields remain," 
and they do remain : " We will restore the works of our hands," 
and ye do so. He hath sent out his winds on the deep and buried 
your shipping beneath it : but ye said, " We will replace them," 
and it cometh to pass. He hath muttered in your ears the distant 
thunders of war. But ye said, " We are a mighty people, and 
have swords and can use them." And this also ye may do. He 
hath deranged your finances, crippled your trade, depressed your 
manufactures, interrupted your exchanges, depreciated your 
currency, reduced thousands from affluence to bankruptcy, divi- 
ded your councils, shaken public credit and private confidence, 
filled you with alarm as to the stability of your government and 
the authority of law, and brought you down to the brink of des- 
pair : but ye said 3 " William Henry Harrison shall save us out of 



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thfl I all these evils. Lo! Harrison Cometh and he will 

restore all things.' 1 I •> pass according to \our 

will. Now thfl I i bil hand upOQ him, and the stoul- 

bearted millions of the land are I, and the men of mi 

hn\ | . uulrij. 

■i, inn! God hat 

il Harrison, a mon i . 

I . I, ami I i on I 

proce< in all qnarters than 1 

Bare ire may i the divine design in 

sudden and overwhel se. 

A stiangcr to In- i, and remote from the place of his 

abode, not well acquainted with the raphy, and 

irdlcs9 alike ol the 
I have endeavored to find in a few undisputed and well-known 
facta respecting him, evidence of h - i man, and of 

the grace i in him, ae a christian. Herein he. i ample 

for us all. His temporal greatnei le forever. Without that 

greatness, not a man amongst us need repine at bil bscure 

1 humble lot. True the year pi>t PJ <s a stran_ ; more 

like a fable and the tales of romance, than '.lie plain realities of 
life. It seemed as if the heroic a»e had revived, peopled with the 
creations of the epic muse. It was an apparition. It bas melted 
away, and ye are now awakened as out of sleep. I 
realities of things are with us. N w that the Lord 

p igna. \ know that "all flesh is as gi :id all the 

glory of man as the flower i - : the grass wilhereth, and 

the dower thereof falleth >ut the word of the Lord en- 

dureth forever." [f President Harri de that word Ins own 

by a lively faith, he hi - intastic apparition-; for " a far 

more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." H> rein follow him, 
ye who delighted to honor bim living, and mourn for bim 
This do, and ye may w ill that which he could i 

keep, and now would not take. Awake, and leave the appari- 
tions of vain dreams, for the imperishable i 3 of grace and 
ry ! Illustrious man ! other men will praise thee . noble 
form : but the worms have that ! I will praise thee for 
thy maid I dee Is : but tlr. I is I ' I - will praise 
thee for thy hospitabli board : but thy babi> 
tation 1- tie and will know thee no more— thy wife is a 
widow and thy children fathi l rs will p 
thy civil wisdom and pali Is : bu' aas 
led a\. 1. ! Others will ; yed with the diadem 
• •t the pen jesty: but that diadi mother*! bead, 

and Ibine lm-< low in the grave ' I will 'bee for that tlm 

world gave thee not nor hath lak< n iway ; for that which went 



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with thee whither thou has gone, and which has put on thy head 
an incorruptible crown. Be ye of the like precious faith. Soon 
your course here will end. Ye cannot have his place to die in : 
but ye shall have all a place to die. Ye cannot have his sump- 
tuous coffin : but ye shall all have a coffin. Ye will not have a 
public funeral : but ye shall all be buried. Believe and obey 
that gospel which we hope he believed, and ye shall have as 
bright a crown as now adorns his glorified head. He has gone 
from us, and we must leave him. I have spoken of him accord- 
ing to the judgment of charity. It belongs not to us to antici- 
pate the tribunal of God and forestall the judgment of the last 
day. " The Lord seeth not as men seeth." He has gone to his 
account, whither you and I must soon follow him. Like our- 
selves he was a natural heir of sin and sorrow and death, and 
there is no hope for hi.m, and none for ourselves, save in the 
atoning blood, purifying spirit, and boundless mercy of him 
" who loved us, and gave himself for us," If he was Christ's 
here, he is now with him in eternal glory. Arrayed in linen 
clean and white, with a palm branch in his hand, a crown of pure 
gold on his head, he is lifting up his voice on high ; and with 
patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs and saints, singing the 
song of Moses and the Lamb. 

Recent events rebuke you, my countrymen ! Ye have listen, 
ed to the syren song of men of double tongues and guileful hearts, 
and ye have erred and strayed from the right ways of the Lord 
of all, like lost sheep. Ye have said, " The land is ours, and 
the dominion thereof is given into our hands, and we will raise 
up and put down at our pleasure ; we will change laws, and or- 
dain the times and seasons, and there is nothing which it is not 
in the power of our hands to do." Herein ye have waged war 
with Him on whose head are many crowns, and he has proved 
himself stronger than you. Ye are defeated : ye are clothed in 
sackcloth, and not in scarlet : ye sit in ashes, and not on your 
high places : " your laughter is turned to weeping and your joy 
to heaviness." Ye are all rebuked ; and no man can now say to 
his brother, " The Lord is on my side." Ye are both rebuked. 
Neither this one, nor that one, as you would have had it, sits 
now in your chair of state. See ye not that " the race is not to 
the swift, nor the battle to the strong ?" Has not the " Lord 
confounded the wisdom of the wise, and brought to nought the 
understanding of the prudent V Ye are heart- stricken my coun- 
trymen ! Far be it from me to be glad at your calamities, or to 
mock now that distress has come upon you. My country ! with 
all thy faults I love thee still ! Youngest, fairest, best of nations ! 
But thou art as an untamed heifer. In thy fat pastures thou hast 
waxed wanton. Thou hast drawn back the shoulder, and kicked 



I ! 

ogamit the goads. Bow down tlty neck, leal lliou be ltd tu the 

■laughter 

i e urn nj couotiymen that the L 
dom, the power, and tbe glory. "Which of you < lit 

rth to pass wheal mmandetbitm Ye are no 

ho\ "Ye are flesh, not spirit." I "clay in the 

bands of the potter." ^ e are do I < . r .i - . Ye have no domirj 
o\'T :, ith of your noetrils, H< iven and earth are not 

\oiir\s. Seed tune and harvest, SUI ad winter, are i 

iluiio. Times and as wait not your bidding. Y e art 

tures of G d, und the world ye live in is his. J lid, 

" The latlei day glory\>ftbe earth is but where is il 

"Watchman ! what nfthe night .'"' Where are iby astro 

nnd star-gaaers, and sooth-sayers ? Turn ye to the God of your 

fathers, lie is the true < rod, and the <• Dg king. Inquire 

al his oracles. There you will find the ways of wisdom, the 
paths of peace, the door of hope, the fountain of living 
the tree of life, an inheritance incorruptilile, undefded and that 
fadeth not away. Our fathers trusted in him and they wtTt de- 
livered : they trusted in him, and their faces were 
Go then, my countrymen, and mh no more ! Go re, h ius< bold 
by household, and man by man, and seek the God thai made 
you, "in whoso hand jour breath is. and whose are all y 
ways." " Lift up your eyes unto the bills from whence eometh 
your help. Your help eometh from the Lord, which in 
heaven and earth. He will then not sutler your foot to be 
moved: he that keepeth you will not slumbef. liehold, he that 
kecpeth Israel will not slumber nor sleep. The Lord will be 
thy keeper : the Lord shall be- thy shade at thy right hand. The 
sun shall not Bmito thee by day, nor the moon by night. The 
Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy 
soul. And the Lord shall prcscrvo thy going out sod thy coming 
in from this time forth, and even forever more. " Bol as fof 
such as turn aside to their crooked ways, I I shall lead 

them forth with tho workers ol iniquity; but peace shall be upon 
Israel." 

As to our country's welfare, and the administration of our 
government and laws, it bchooveth us ever to be mindful of the 
injunction of God's holy word, wherein we are comrnan 
" first of all to make supplications, intercessions and giving of 
thanks for all men : fof kings and all that are in authority, that 
we mav lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and h> >n - 

esty." Lay aside then, your animosities as partisans, my coon* 

trymen, and down upon your kin ■ 

public good, your own and .our children's, put SWS f d|vis- 

ions, and " do justly, lo\c mer<\ , and walk humbly with God." 



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** Then your peace shall be as a river, and your righteousness as 
the waves of the sea. Then no evil shall befall you, nor any 
plague come nighyour dwellings :" no weapon formed against you 
shall prosper, and every tongue that riseth up against you, ye 
shall condemn. The Lord, who is a God of peace, abhoreth 
your strifes. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Ye 
are brethren, fall not out by the way. Speak ye every man 
truth with his neighbor. Why do ye, one against another, the 
work of enemies? He that soweth strife, and maketh divisions, 
seeketh not your advantage, but his own. Abhor the deceitful 
man, and choose none of his ways, for he shall suddenly fall into 
mischief, and the Lord will take him in Iris own craftiness. 

Finally, brethren, the time is short. We and our world are 
coming to an end. The last trumpet shall sound, and the judge- 
ment begin. There is a Mighty One on high, whom we hear of 
in the gospel, but whom we all shall see coming in the clouds of 
heaven. Be ye at peace with him. All power is his. He hath 
the keys of hell and of death- It is better to put your trust in 
him, than to trust in man : it is better to trust in him, than to 
trust in princes. Serve ye him with fear, and rejoice with tremb- 
ling ; for he cometh to judge the world in righteousness, and the 
people with his truth. The earth shall give up her dead, and 
the sea the dead that are therein. Seeing then that ye look for 
such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, 
without spot and blameless, for our God is a consuming fire ! 



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